LiDAR canopy radiation model reveals patterns of photosynthetic partitioning in an Arctic shrub

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 221, Issue , 2016, Pages 78-93

  Magney, Troy S ^a   Eitel, Jan U H ^a   Griffin, Kevin L ^b   Boelman, Natalie T ^b   Greaves, Heather E ^a   Prager, Case M ^c   Logan, Barry A ^d   Zheng, Guang ^e   Ma, Lixia ^e   Fortin, Elizabeth A ^f   Oliver, Ruth Y ^b   Vierling, Lee A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c Bowdoin College ^*  (United States)

^d BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

3D canopy; Light interception model; Photosynthetic partitioning; Ray tracing; Salix pulchra; Terrestrial LiDAR

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; COORDINATE; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PHOTON FLUX DENSITY; RAY TRACING; SHRUB; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC;

SALIX PULCHRA;

EID: 84958260491     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.02.007     Document Type: Article

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